The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-14 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. DOVER, JAN. p."-A Mes3enger arrived last night, at about half past ten, and sailed for Calais in allag of Truce. Another Messenger arrived from Calais in 4-Ting of Truce this morning, and proceeded to London immediately. PORTSMOUTT!, JAM. 13.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Undaunted and Eclipse, from the Downs. The Fleets for the East Indies, Mediterranean, and Falmouth, still remain. B4IXNAM QUAY, 'JAN. 12.—Sailed from Torbay the Channel Fleet, under command of Sir/ Duck- WORTH, to resume their station off trest. DaAL, JAN. 13 —Sailed the Kangaroo Sloop of War, and Ererlion Gun-brig, on a cruize. The Jane Privateer, Capt. HAYTON, has re-takeu, :and brought into the Downs, the American Ship Live Oak, from Virginia. r.............. '4 . Silzuhress, hr.. 13.—0 n MondaY n CotitMar tial was held on board the Illagnaniige, for the triati of the Boatswains of the Snake and Iliitsilare Sloops of War, for drunkenness and neglelit'Or duty, when the former'Was 'pronounced ncapable_of 'aver 'Serving Ugain as an Officer, and thelatter sentenced to serve one twelvemonth before the mast, on board such Ship as the Con:Muncie* in Chief may appoint': Came down from the River the Sultan, 74 glans. Huta., 11.--=The Lord Nelson, Lieui. IVEARII,' from Yarmouth, has arrived here, to c0n ....v0y the Economy, BRADHAM, to the Downs. In order to check the depredations of the Enemy's l'rivateet'S'on this part of the coast, the Oteron and `eatypso Sloops of War, and Censor Gun-brig, are 'stationed 'to cruize bet Ween Newcastle and Yar ' .mouth-;• and the Sappho Sloop of War to cruite between Newcastle and Flamborough. The Princess Augusta Cutter arrived here on Mon "day, and brought in with her the Frederica .Neilson, Swedish Ship, from St. Übes, with salt, which was '• captured by the French Privateer Dunkirk *le Quoi, Snd recaptured by the Princess Augusta. One . of 'the crew of the Privateer, found on board the Swed-. ' Ysh Ship, deposed, that on a former cruize, off the YJogger Bank, they fell in with, and after a running tight of. half an hour, boarded and captured the Re irieder,t Anon, of this port, from Riga, with a thrgo of flax, hemp, and linsed. This is sOpposed . to have been about,the 19t11 Nov. Capt. TAy Loa :and the crew and three passengers were put en board , • • the Pr.ivateer, and taken to Ostend, where the pas t engers were at . liberty ; but the rest were con- Veyedis prisonerslo,Arras. The Retrieve was car . fied•intu the Te cel and stranded near Naarden in a gale of wind ; the cargo was l a nd e d, a nd the vessel was expeded to be got off. The Privateer carried M,... t 4; carriage guns, besides small arms, and‘was man , .ised by 44 men and boys. On Friday last two lugger-rigged Vessels were seen froni the Heights, near Whitby, in possession bf a Frigate and two. Brig-cutters ; the former *are supposed to be the Privateers which have so long iffested the Yorkshire coast. ~r p # Tit 41.14, Portugnete Vessel, called the Hercules, of 5 . 00 tons,. principally laden with dol lars, rum, hides, sugar, coffee, and ccieliineal, from Rio Janeiro, bound to Lisbon, a prize to the Grey. 'hound Letter of Marque, of Guernsey ; Ptift.t! DE PRIVELLE, . Master, which put into Bal eight or ten dayS since, fo'r water and fresh provi sions, broke from her anchorage in the dreadful gala of Thursday iAst, and went to pieces against a . chit}; when, shocking to relate, eight of the crew, who. endeavoured to evade their impending fate by get ting into the boat, were drowned; the remainder, onsistitig of • about twenty persons (with twoßeve rfue-boattnen, who were F('llt on board), were saved , by clinging to the masts and rigging. In' the course 'of the diy many pieces of the wreck floated ,on . ' shore, among which were found two pipes of wine ; which .were taken charge of by persons belonging , to the Revenue, stationed there for that purpose by JAMES BUTLER, P.sq. to whom every praise due'., for his hazardous exertions; and assiduity in preserv• leg whatever Property came on shore.—During the. two &flowing days, Mr: BUTLER succeeded in Say.. ing-a large quantity:of hides, two pipes of fOrn, and same dollars ; the latter were discovered in a nook in the harbour, but it being high water, he could only . secure nboitt fifty or sixty ; the remainder it is hop : - . ed will . be found. when 'the violenceof the surf abates. • On Sunday morning, ,the hoctiez of seven o th o fortunate men whOvere drowned were washed on shore Una interred ; arnong,those who suffered were ....two.nten belonging to the Greyhound, who, with a, Prize-Master; were put en board the Portugueze Vessel when Captured.. .Tbe Prize-Master; we un derstand, ,was in Cork ,when this disireasibg occur !erice took place. - .Pri.vate letters from Stockholin state a repojt, that the King has ordered ten Sail of the Line, and five. Yrigates, of forty 534-ponders, to be fitted Out at Carlscrona,. whibh ire to be ready for sea the mid , tile of this month. • Fourteen Ships are _loading in the River for dif ferent Ports in the Brazils.. They are to sail under. 'convoy, and the Post Office has given notice that letters for that place will be forwarded by a Ship of rille greater part, of the higgage belonging to the Narquis of DOUGLAS has arrived in England. M -the Vessel which b ro ught it home was on its passage, she was boarded by a French . Privateer. ,Che Ship's Papers, &c, were overhauled ; but the captors contented themselves with taking the car riage and two valuable paintings belonging to his • Lordship, and suffered the. Vessel to proceed on her Voyage. . The Great Hall in Chelsea Hospital is to be fitted lllp for the ituportant trial of Gen, Wttrrnockt, wittelt will .Cot this day'su'auight, the .sattie 4tiy. on. which ParliaMeac txt-ets. PROLOCVII 3 till THE NSW ?LAY, SACTITI.E6 rim WAHDRIEIt y OR, inis RIGHTS OF ite wRITTRit EY MR. 'IRYLOIL STOlttli $Y itt. ISRLINTON. Old distant Realths, and from a former flay, Our Bard derives the tubjea of his Play; A subjea that might then some int'rest o'vvrt, But now, alas ! is too familiar grown— A Prince's fall in struggling for a thrones Yet, as the story from that soil we bring Which still can boast a gallant patriot King; A King who direst vengeance firmly braves, Scorning a timid train of scepter'd slaves. Sure we may well disclaim the ignoble fear That such a theme will c'er be slighted here, t Where virtuous Monarchs we with pride revere. Yes, we in Swains, lay our Scene to-night— SWEDEN that still maintains a Nation's right, That still in faithful bands with BRIT A rt 4 draivs, Though all beside desert her sacred cause. Hail ! great G usrAvus worthy of that line That in historic rolls conspicuous shine I May Heaven propitious view thy glorious stand, And keep thee leagts'd with Freedom's sea-girt Llad, So rescu'd Nations may their Rights regain, And Europe trample en her Tyrant's chain. But it; heroic Prince, thou too must fall,' Or link with abject I'ow'rs cnclav'd by Gaul, BRITANNIA o'er thy fate shall heave a sigh, And still, unaw'd, a threit'ning World defy. 'CLAREMONT, the a&or, has been somewhat rough ly handled in print, but why it is difficult to say.— lie is an unoffending man in private life, and is 'regular and attentive in the discharge of his public 'duty. He has often appeared as the substitute for • higher performers, and has acquitted himself tolera bly well upon such occasions. He never aspires to better chara&ers than the Manager thinks proper to assign to him, he receives them contentedly, and performs them to the best of .his abilities. Surely, then, . such a man is not a prop e r obj e t f or cr i t i ca l hostility, or private malevolence. - • • • Yesterday the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER dined with her MAJESTY and the Putticsssas. • • Monday next being the day appointed for the ce lebration of her MAJE3TY'S birth-day, the Grenadier Companies of the Guards are ordered ,to take the guard ip St. Janie's Palace on the bdcasion. They" will be (blessed in their new ckiathing, made on pur.• pose. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE'S 'Band, in grand State cloatbing, are also to attend ; and. a most de -gant stand of colours will be displayed. It is said all the Royal Dukes will attend the parade in the morn ing. General LINTERS, who commanded the Spaniards at Buenos Ayres, is fond of reading the English Papers, (which he endeavours to obtain as' often as possible,) and is pretty well inforined,on their general topics. The following 'conversation ;lan ally took place between him and one of our Offi cers 'LT NIERS Fs th is M. CRAUPORD the same Gen tleman ‘A.lio made so much noise in your Parliament against the Volunteers ?" ENG. Guil.—" The same." Li N.—" I think it very extraordinary he should comb so far to be defeated- by exaaly the same de scription of people in thi s . country !" Private acto nts from St. Petersburgh state, that BU6IAitiRTE a in order to render the connection be tween France and Russia popular, and to diminish • the discontent which the rupture with this Country had produced, has given orders to buy up great quan tities of hemp, flax, tallOW, &c, though it is certain that none, or at least only a very small proportion of these purchase, can be expeaed to reach France dm ' ingthe war. One .of his Agents at St. Petersburgh said to have received 30.,000,00040f rubles to be employed inulie purchase of Russian produce ' wllich is depositediuwatehonses, 'on account of t he French Government. • , KAUITMAN, whose death we lately announced, and whose remains received funeral ho nours suitable to the rank she held in the. Arts, was a .weinan.of considerable talents, though her genius ,was not of. that commanding order which is calco hoed to - prodizee a school of its . own. Indeed it may be said . that she rather possessed taste and judg ment, than any of the higher qualities which belong to genius. She was evidently a follower of Foes six, Whose figures, whose 'draperies, and whose style of colouring, she chiefly studied. There was generally elegance in . her compositions, hut not much discrimination of chara&er or expression, and never any forcible etfea. Her works indeed were Mud) better calculated to give, scope to the Eng•ra= Arer, than to strike by 'their own beauties. ,BUt if her pictures were in general tame and Unafea ing, 'they never. revolted • against taste, but afforded *nob Interest, as the produaions of an amiable and intelligent mind. • She was entitled to high tesPea for her private charaaer, and the More so as she was unfertunate in - her life, particularly in a matrimonial conneaion; .which she w4s the: dupe of vulgar artifice; Her condua, however, was so uniformly .proper after this melandholy event, that she was the object of pity rather than of censure,' and her dia. .raaer was held in great . esteem through the re 'remit-Wee of her Life, by persons of distinguished con. seqoeoce„ as well as those more immediately con need with her, The Earl of Llstatoce, on Friday last, enter tained upwards of .so of his labourers, and their families, .with a plentiful* dinner, at the Noble Lot's seat in Anglesea. A large party o f the . neigh booring Gentry at' the same time dined With his Lordship. At the last: dinner, given by Earl GaosOINOR to the Clorporation' of Chester, 91# most conspicuous dishes were; a baron of beef and a large Christmas pye; Which weighed i 541 bi. • ft contained three geese, three turkies; seven hare's, twelve pap , f ridges, a haul,' and a leg . of veal., Oe Thtifiday sennight, a dog belonging KIWNI47I, baker, in Brighton, tell down it deep well„..*lsieh had been rather carelessly left 'open ; hut the, ,. accident havieg been, - luckily fa4 , ,, ; the poor- deg, obierved, ~aod the bucket stiont Oter let. down, with a lighted candle fixed to for R - relic‘f,. the . idgacioes ,animal g ut into it, and was drawn Item his per,Situa.- tion •without havin z ; sustaneti any inatertatihinry, Visa , • , . vis OF XVIII. TO Pitt ;.'s. TUESDAY, SAtiiiki . Saturday la!t hie Reyal,gighness - MONSIEUR, accompanied by bis Royal Higiluessthe Due Da BERRI (his second son),, and 'the CaMpto D'Escats, reached - Stowe s the DtlC De SERRA;4I' was already there, and the Baron his ROLLE arrived on Skuiday. On that day, ,The KING, with his eldest Ne;liew, 'the Compte D'AN cioucEmis (tire husband of Madame IIoyALE), their suite, proceeded, from Wansieild-House• to Missendeit, a small town on the Buckingham road, where they passed the night ;. and continued' their route on Monday for Stowe,. where they 'were expeeled early in the afternoon. Their, Royal Efishnessei the• Prince Ds Comae and the bIIC DE iii".).URIION, with the C,ompte DE ROLULLE, also arrived there on the woo day. The DOC' DE Gitk . :iiicr, and the Cornpte DE DAlans, form the suiteOf The French RING. . , ' A latte party are assembled at Stowe, of the fa trply connections of the, Noble Owner, and the prin ! . cipal N o bility . and 0 - entry . of that neighbourhood, on. 'this splehdid occasion. • .•..... . AboUt tiroeplock in the dternoon of yesterday, the venerable Prince •De CONDE, the Dec Da Botfacew, and the .Compto De Rouru.s, reached • Stowe, and were followed in about an Jour and a half by his Majesty the French KING, the Conipte IYANGOULESIE, the Due Da GRAMMONT, and* the Compte Ms Da.afts.s. The Due D'OctioANs did not arrive till five, and was unaccompanied by his brother the Compte Dc BcAtoolools, also in vited, but who is, we are sorry to state, severely in disposed. • The King was received at the North entrance of Stowe House by the Marquis Of . BUCKINGHAM, Lord TEMPLE, and Lord GEORGE Gacsvacc (the latter quite recovered from his late illues.), at the foot of the steps leading thereto, in their toil \'‘,o.k Maw)." uniform. - The Marquis condu3ed the K /NG . to 'the North Hall, where he presented him to the . Marchioness, and his daughter Lady MARY Galas.. VILLS; and then - several(); to the Ladies who were there assembled: . '4fter which the whole Company ' proceeded to:the magnificent Saloon (tlieboast and . Wander of the country), where' they were receivpd byMUsic, a grand Band of which gave " God Save the King" in the best style, and with the Most ,tid mitable etrea. Aficir visiting. the State Rooms to the West of the saloon, his MAJESTY retlitd to dress. At a little after five, the company re-as seMbled to dinner, when about fifty sat do*n to an entertainment, the splendour and magnificence. of Which- tnUcks description. . When the Marquis drank after dinner u the ll lustrions House of Bourbon," the Male gave the well-known air of " Oh ! 40147.4 Ohl Mon Rai," the feelings which this occasioned May be con ceived, but cannot be expressed.. King, and Prosperity to Great Britain," was then toasted by his MAJE STY j and the Ladies.at 14ittau,! . jthe QUEEN and the Comptesse D'A,Nooimioas) were afterwards drank. • the eye with the end of his umbrella, as he eitdalin ed his eye was out. • LEMKRICKi JAN. • 6.—lnformation having been given on Monday last; to STEPHEN DICK9OX, `Esq. that two persons guilty of a murder in this county were secreted in the house ofJohn . ,Herbert, of Red field, in the mountain behind Killaloe, in the county of Clare, he proceeded thither with a small detach ment of dragoons, at eleven o'clock tin that night, and searched Herbert's hOuse, but unfortunately the two persons had just made their escape. ' The owner acknowledged that they had been for some months concealed with hine—that they had fled from the county of Litoerick, in•conSequence of the murder of the busting, near Maitisterthat . their . Metestots.Hoose.—Yesterday a notorious pick. names are John Hanrahan and Luke .Hanrahan.—A stormy road on the mountain side, and a still night, pocket, named : Endes, was, brought up fin exarni- -' enabled them to hear the noise of the 'horses . hoofs. nation, upon a charge of robbing a youth, named Randal, of his watch on the preceding night. The After searching a considerable number of houses in prosecutor was returning from the house of a friend that part of the mountain, the High Sheriff returned in the City to his lather's house in Tooley-sheet, at six o'clock yesterday morning. • and on his way through Cannon-street he was m e t A young man, 22. years of age, the son of . an . by the p risoner and some of • his associates, who opulent liquor-merchant, stands charged with hay surrounded' him. • The prisoner plucked the watch ins committed a rape on a woman 45 years of age,. and a widow, in Sc. Anne's parish, at whose !mese from his foh, and gave it to one of his accomplices, he had apartments for this accommodation of a fa- who ran off, and the prosecutor immediately , clung od the prisoner with the watch. On his being vourite female. The young daMsel had recently searthed by the constable of the night a pocket. eloped from'her father, a shoemaker in Bloomsbury . was found : on him, . containing some Bank i parish, and her retreat having been discovered, she bmk noses, also a sealed letter, not addressed for himself, was taken home by the father. on Sunday even;ng, and a discharge to himself from a ship of .war at which fact was not known to her protector until the . the Nore, On.board . of which he had been sent by following night,' when he called for- her it eleven the Magistrates, in consequence of a former crime* o'clock ; it was thew that the rape- is said to have of a similar nature. He described himself as the 'been committed on the landlady of the house. —; The affair will be publicly investigated .in a day son Of a plumber in Fleet-lane, 'but shivery.po Jee ~. flied the fact. He Was remanded for fexit or awn. . Two men, named Eflward Davy, late of Newing- , •ulna,ti°n * ton, a hatter, and Thomas ',Week, his wife's brother, . Bette-STREIer.-14.ast 'night William /Tirikeie a werie committed, .on Monday hest, from Heoley, in private in the West London Militia, .was br e oght tep OstOrdshire, by the:Mayor and a brother Magistrate, on a charge of highway robbery. Thomas Old s() Oxford. Castle, ,for trial at the Assizes, on five field, firmer, at Islington,' stated. on • oath, that chargee :of uttering forged Country Bank notes: about eight delock..on Tileii44y:eveiting, a s he was The case t`hat led . to their detection was the uttering going home, in the fields near laliugtois, a man ace one of al. to Mr. Plutnbe, a mercer at Henley, in cocci him, who said, " T . want your money !" to payment of some stockings, . which note purported whittle , the informant replied / " You Watdiey 1110- to be a note of the ipswiell and Suffolk Bank, in t he. ney, 'do yota ?" The answer was ," Yee." . I..hat finn of Ralph Houlton and • Co. apd,made payable tit 'then the, informant gave the man seven-pence w ee St. Michael's-alley, CornhilL , Atrer he had taken , hie left hand, whilst he struck the nee with hi; it, 'and given the change, something excited his sus- right; that this blow brought the priiotier n, tje picion, and he pursued them to an adytce.nt village; smiled—whereupon the intormaut closing with the and brought them basic to Henley. Am they would prisoner kept hitn down, and at the , Same-time not say who they were, or front whence they came, - shouted' out ' Minder !" that whilst in thi s posture Mr. Plumbe sent to Collingbourne, at Utiteo.liell, liatepeisouer enderibura to utisheatle his bayonet, who came down, and recognized them as id ae. which the hifiJrartrit prevented by catching teem et quaintarices. Some notes for• el. and ii. of the the prisoner's hand; that a littlo parley cnioing, tllt Same description, were found concealed in their priaimer begged the infurtnant to withdrew, tt.) bats, and they were tsePn to throw sonic others into which 'Proposition the informant agreed/On con:li . the fi re. tion that be w ould disengage his hand from the . . . Edward P-4-- E‘q a Capsin Mahe envy, in a . . , s • • bayonet : this done, the unormant etripped the list of the bayonet, and told the reenc e re eit i fit of despair, put 4 , 4 lid killis existence on Tries he did not keep at a distance he WT3 a 4,*.lii isiae day, at hiselodgi eg e, in &mope, 'by shootin g that the prisoner seeing another tieteiote6inii Olt a ;, , himself chrotit4 y ,,head. - The deceased was . on - his passage toaatkeirni for the recovery of his health_ fled and disappeared. .RObort ;Sell, Corpetakit; i tik ,. which.had been in a very prectrious state. ', said regimeht, atated 6n tette,' th a t Zrad: 1:14:,,, came yesterday to . the parade pitta a borro4l.o. /iiil,- • On the 6th instant was committed to the House . tenet, and-that th e prisoner s ‘ grot Font 3i;it'iliCit t,i , s of - Correaion, Maiditone, aged rghtv-nine years, dicated that he was. the precedintsreeeitee et µ.7,M1. that :on the complakt . being'ic tee , i„. Dinah tiqdgate, formerly an errand woman trona Othatn to Maidstone, bu c t. late a pauper in. Coxheath • 1115°11/e 'tight i the witness, aeconspepitel b) an 'officer, it eel to workhouse, charged with. abusing,; pssaultingi and , putting in bocala fear, the - master acid mistress -of 1 lod ged, tre e e. , P e edl n il ''' wi r ie , th '' 1. 21 "vt:i"." the said work holjte;:flit Mikis indecorous bqpayiPur i wyg e "' an ‘ i ti Pr "' en "e . " . " *.mt • . 1 ." "i ' d* - : it , ' ' ~ ..-e 11A , aceidelithili 1(2;4 his . b.I CPI: r .• , . she was ordered to be kept to - hard labour for one -' prisoner said 11 ' 3 calendar month. . . Tuesday afternoon - in the :o ii,, Raad, a „, t . tt ,: , ~, I _ Married yeste - ar iy, •Mit.is SfitseCip, Este: to '• was quite innocent of thercuorge. 'Hy wt .,;, ‘ . coMmitted. Ma Seawrian, of stack wattle - . . In the evening, music and dancing' Were.the pre. Jude to supper. During the whole of the day, his MAJESTY appeared in the hest spirits, and 'highly sensible to the attentions of his Noble Hosts:— Throughout thawhole of his progress he had expe. rioced the utmost respeft - and kindness in the towns through which be passed, liur no where more than at Buckingham, when the principal inhabitants witnessed his arrival at their doors, and demonstrat. eci their feelings towards the . illustrious Leila in a Manner the most unequivocal, and which does them • the utmost honour. TO TUE - Eilhn OP?* WY: • • ~.. I rake the liberty of I - ending you the folicititfiit Statemeitt, which appeared 'in the Salisbury Paper o f Modilay last, not doubting your readiness to serve ..the community by giving to such important inteligence the more - extensive cii'Culation which youi -raper affords. (COPY.) Ringwood, Dec. 30, 1807. " After a most careful and minute investigatiO6 of tdose cases in which the Small Pox occulted subsequently to Inoculation for the Cow Pock, it ap peared that such Inoculationlad not taken effect, or that when an effect had been produced, the pro . - gress of Vaccination was interrupted, so as to render the patient insecure. The result. cannot tail to be highly interesting to the inhabitants of 11'0g - wood and of the neighbouring parishes, in as mach as it must remove the feeling of alarm which had beeti excited, and must restore and confirm the coundetice of the public in a pradiCe eluding protection agaiitst a pestilential disease, 'justly esteemed the scourge of the human race. st The investigation was made in the presence of some of the most respeaable Gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, by Dr. Fowler, of Salis bury, and a deputation of three members of the Royal Jennerian Society of London." 1 have only to add, Sir, that, for the more per fea satisfat.tion of the Public, a particular account of, this most interesting husiues*.will shortly be published 'by the Direaurs of the ' Royal Jenneriau Society. A. January 12, me. - . . . ; i -,.. it t ' he the Recorder made a 'Report to his Ma jesty of the following ConviEfs under set:Ai:me of death in Newgati!; riz. I!‘3ary Crooks, alia's V iney, fir stealing bank. notes, &c. in a dwelling-Noose ; ITictliiel /414; fir steal ing goods in a dwelling-house ; jikue Mcigehao, for a laps otfencx ; John Almond, for 'fitgery ; Eliza beth irett, for. uttering counterfeit money ; Mir - garet Norton, for stealing goods, &c. in a dwelling house, and Michael Tuhoy, for a like Offence. ,Wh i en John • Almond vas ordered for execution on Wednesday next.—The rest were respited during pleasure.—Bullock wai not reported. DuaLiN; JAN. 9.---On Tuesday night last, about tho t hoOr . of eleven, Mr. HIATT, of the Black Rock, paskina through Essex-street, was attacked by a numb'er of ruffians, near Sycamore-alley, who knock ed !him down, and then leaped upon his body, by which he has received much personal injury. -Hav ing fortunately left his watch to' be repaired, and concealed his pocket-book, he lost but a dollar and some small silver. The preservation of his life he attributes to the providential appearance of some I GentiNnen who were going to theeastie Hotel. He was carried to the Globe, Hotel, where he had be spoke his bed, and dressed by an *eminent surgeon. Mr. Eirterr thinks that he wounded one of them iu 1 it